Re: [PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge

2015-12-10 Thread xinhui
Hi, all I do some tests *without* my fix patch. after reboot, I saw logs below. [0.271236] WARNING: nvram partition checksum was 58, should be 24! [0.271239] Terminating nvram partition scan If I do tests *with* my fix patch, logs are: [0.291419] NVRAM Partitions-

[PATCH] powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge

2015-12-09 Thread xinhui
From: Pan Xinhui When we merge two contiguous partitions whose signatures are marked NVRAM_SIG_FREE, We need update prev's length and checksum, then write it to nvram, not cur's. So lets fix this mistake now. Also use memset instead of strncpy to set the partition's name. It's more readable if w